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ReLoad is the seventh album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in November 1997. The album is a sequel or counterpart to the band's previous album, Load. ReLoad is currently certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA. The original idea was to make Metallica's sixth album a double album. But with problems recording so many songs at one time, the band decided that half of the songs were to be released, and the band would continue to work on the remaining songs and release them the following year. Drummer Lars Ulrich stated that: "it's the second half of Load. It's just coming out a year-and-a-half later."

Garage Inc. is a tribute album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in November 1998. t includes recorded cover songs, all of their B-side covers released up to that point, and the entire The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited, which had gone out of print since its original release in 1987. The title is a combination of Garage Days Re-Revisited and their song "Damage, Inc." Over 2.5 million copies have been sold in the US as certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA.

S&M - an abbreviation of 'Symphony and Metallica' - is a live album by the American band Metallica, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen, recorded on 21-22 April, 1999 at Berkeley Community Theatre.

Lean into It is an album by hard rock band Mr. Big, released in 1991. Known as the band's breakthrough release, it peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200 charts, while the single "To Be With You" became the band's first and only song to hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The follow-up single, "Just Take My Heart", was another Top 40 hit, peaking at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Ritual is the fifth album released by Testament in 1992. It is to date the last studio album to feature drummer Louie Clemente, and was also the guitarist Alex Skolnick's last album before rejoining the band in 2005. On The Ritual, Testament began exploring slower, heavier territory for their music while still maintaining their thrash metal roots.

Napalm Death are a grindcore band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. Their early works was associated with defining the grindcore genre by incorporating elements of hardcore punk and thrash metal, short songs, fast tempos, deep guttural vocals and sociopolitical lyrics. The band's debut album Scum, released in 1987 by Earache Records, proved substantially influential throughout the global metal community.

Stormtroopers of Death, more commonly known as S.O.D., was a crossover thrash band formed in New York in 1985. They are commonly credited as being among the first bands to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal into a style sometimes called "crossover thrash". Bigger than the Devil is their third release. Its cover design is based on Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast and its title is a play of words on the Beatles member John Lennon proclaiming the Beatles were "bigger (more popular) than Jesus Christ".

Terrorizer is an American grindcore and death metal band formed in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. After disbanding, its members gained recognition by playing in influential extreme metal bands, such as Morbid Angel (David Vincent, Pete Sandoval), Napalm Death (Jesse Pintado) and Nausea (Oscar Garcia, Alfred "Garvey" Estrada). The group released their inaugural album, World Downfall, in 1989, and it was is regarded as one of the most influential grindcore albums ever: it showcases crunchy, heavily distorted guitar riffs and extremely fast and precise blast beats in addition to growling, harsh vocals and lyrics dealing with social issues, features that would become a standard among grindcore music, as of the cover art, which is similar to Napalm Death's Scum depicting a collage of islamic terrorists, nuclear power plant, dead bodies and Jesus rising. About a third of the songs were actually Nausea material, the previous band of vocalist Oscar Garcia. The album was released in 1989 when the band had already split-up, with members Jesse Pintado, David Vincent and Pete Sandoval going respectively to seminal death metal bands Napalm Death and Morbid Angel.